Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-11
LOCAL BREvITIES.

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pany G., First Artillery.
! The barge California has left the marine
ways, where she had been receiving RI.
pairs, and gone into service.
United States Railroad Commissioner
Johnston returned yesterday from his in
| spection of the California and Oregon Rail
road at the front"
Deputy Sheriff Merrick, of Siskiyou
county. passed through yesterday, convey
ing an insane man named Henry Moll to
the Asylum at Stockton.
+. F. Tebbets, Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors, drew from the State treasury
on Saturday S3,021 95 due this county for
the support of aged INDECENT persons.
The Board of Supervisors adjourned last
Saturday until the ODD inst, when they
will meet to open the bids for repairing the
Folsom bridge. They Will meet every day
this week as a Board of Equalization.
The Street Railroad Company has added
two handsome new cars, with open sides
and seats running crosswise, TO their roll
ing stock. They were put in service YES
| terday. one on the o and the other on the
H-streetroute.
! During the past few days the dog poisoner
has been operating in the vicinity of Fourth
and l. streets, with fatal results 10 several
cannes. Yesterday morning fine look
ing setter picked up some of the poisoned
meat and soon afterwards died.
l.. c. Henning, a young man about 10
years OF age, who has been in the employ
OF Lindiey & Co., disappeared last We'd
nesday and has not been heard of since.
His clothes are still in his room at the Ar
cade. His father is a police officer at Wood
| land.
4 hn oil .f 1oa IL I. n
| was occasioned by the explosion of a lamp
at the residence of George Nichols, in the
alley between L and NJ, Third and Fourth
streets. The blaze was extinguished with
| out the aid of the department. There was
some little damage from water and smoke.
There was friendly race to the River
side and back yesterday between the yacht
Bertha and the scow Turtle, the latter win
ming. The strong southerly breeze prevail
ing made it a fine day for sailing A new
scow, built by George Young, of Washing
ton, was out, but did not work well, and in
fact, was not well handled at first.
The Odd Fellows Relief Committee of
Stockton came over yesterday on visit to
the Relief Committee of this city, by whom
they were Hospitality entertained escorted
to the various places of interest about the
city, and at P. NJ. given a fine banquet at
/ SaiAANA 11ciA' ny tue
| P. NJ. train.
| a Chinawoman named Wee Keen, living
IN house of ill-fame on Fourth street, near
| l, disappeared Saturday night, and is sup
| posed to have been run away with or been
kidnapped by Lou Dock, in whose company
she was last seen. Her owner and his
friends were yesterday making vigorous
search for her.
| The Oakland Board of Trade has ex-
| tended an invitation to all Boards of Trade
and improvement Associations to meet at
its rooms on Tuesday afternoon, July 19sh
| The object of the conference is to devise
means to secure for Northern California lis
share of the enormous influx of Eastern
| people who will visit California the COM
ing fall.
A Chinaman afflicted in a terrible man.
ner with q loathsome disease which at first
was supposed to be leprosy, has been ex-
| listing for few days past beneath walk in
the rear of the Puget Sound Lumber Com
| paDy's yard. He is beyond medical aid
and the Chinese have deserted him. AT
night he crawls around the Chinese quarter
and gets a little food.
A new barge, called the Montana, re-
Gently built at San Francisco for the Sacra-
mento Transportation Company came up
from the Bay on her first trip yesterday,
towed by the steamer San Joaquin No. 2,
and bringing large cargo OF lumber and
merchandise. She is one of the largest
barges on the coast, and will, it is said,
carry 10000 sacks of grain.
Deputy Assessor J. H. SAWYER settled ND
| with the County Assessor last Monday. He
| turned in, Oh account of poll-taxes. 1928
personal property taxes, 1914 90. Total,
Sl.742 80. The work covered by Mr.. Saw
yer included Dry Creek and Alabama
Townships, and the amount of personal
property taxes collected represents valua-
| ton OF about $50, COO in personal property.
| Very little remains unsolicited.
| A passenger train set fire to old straw in
stacks on John L. Taylor's ranch. abont
| two miles from Woodland, last Friday.
and, as the straw was in close proximity
to the house and barns, serious damage
might have been done but for the energetic
work OF neighbors and two or three header
crews, by whom the fire, though it burned
for several hours, was prevented from ex-
tending to the buildings or fields.
Ralph Sharp, who, while working on a
thrashing machine near Woodland few
DAYS ago, drank too much ice water and
suffered an attack of lockjaw, has been
treated SO successfully by San Francisco
surgeon that he can now open his jaws al
most one-fourth of an inch, which enables
him TO talk, and to drink soup, meat and
Cruel, and it is thought that if he does moi
catch cold he will eventually recover en-.
tirely.
The average Signal Service temperature
on Saturday was 720, which is 10 warmer
than the normal temperature for that day
The highest and lowest temperature was
80 and SO, with fresh, southerlv winds
and clear weather. The average temper.
allure yesterday was 60, which is 50 cooler
than the normal temperature for that day
The highest and lowest temperature was
$50 and $50, with fresh, southerly winds
and clear weather.
Arrived Saturday and yesterday: Steamer
San Joaquin No. 2, from San Francisco
with merchandise; steamer Sonoma, from
San Francisco, with bargeload of lumber fol
the Friend d Terry Lumber Company
steamer ID. Il. Knight, from San Francisco
for Marysville, with merchandise steamer
Dover, from the upper Sacramento with
grain. Departed: Steamers Varuna and
San Joaquin No. 3, for the upper Sacra-
mento, with merchandise steamer San
Joaquin No. 2, for San Francisco, with two
barges of grain.
William Harlow, who beat Z. Vogel very
severely at Brighton Junction few DAYS
ago. says that the latter was discharged
| from HarIows thrashing crew for incom-
tpetency, and when they met at Sullivan's
saloon, at the junction, Vogel used bad Ian
guage and made motion as if 10 draw q
knife upon him. which was the occasion OF
his being beaten. The case came up in
Justice Fosters Court, Brighton, on Friday
and was dismissed, owing TO Vogel's failure
to appear, he having come to the city, not
knowing, he declares, that the case would
be tried that day or that the warrant had
been served.
Shocking Accident.
| Yesterday afternoon two sons of Dr. 6.
A. White, Superintendent of the County
Hospital, and another lad were out in q
field, about three quarters of a mile from
the hospital, the elder boys engaged in
hunting. They bad warned the doctors
youngest son, Garland. to exercise care in
keeping from in front of the gun, bat about
dusk one of them was in the act of Ietting
down the hammer when it slipped and the
charge exploded, just as, through an nm
fortunate fatality, the younger boy hap.
pened to step in front of it. The lcs,,
struck him in the forehead, Just over The
eyes, tearing off the top of his head so CON-
I r,iafaly- thaf tho rrora